1. Taken for your own use in violation of a trust
   "the banker absconded with embezzled funds";
   - misappropriated

1. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
   "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family";
   - defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate [archaic]

See also: illegal

Type of: rip [N. Amer, informal], rip off [informal], steal

Encyclopedia: Embezzled